After 1925, when Adele died at 43, the regular Sunday brunch at Uncle Ferdinand's would always include a viewing of the Klimt portrait, hung in Adele's bedroom in a sweet haze of fresh flowers.
Melanie Amaro's thumpin' dance version of Adele's "Someone Like You" (help, I'm dying inside) featured the "American Horror Story" crossover none of us ever expected: Dozens of black-suited Rubber Men dancing robotically around her as she angrily belted out sad and pensive lyrics for...oh, I don't know, maybe 45 seconds?
One of the collaborators on Legend's new album is British producer Paul Epworth, best known for his work on Adele's 21.
Adele's best original song award for Skyfall was the first ever for a Bond film.
Adele's success came despite a drop in overall US album sales by 4% to 316 million.
Sing Adele's "Hometown Glory" the way it was meant to be self-indulgently cackled and scatted!
They include Adele's Someone Like You and Somebody That I Used To Know, by Gotye featuring Kimbra.
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Little wonder that a woman of Adele's caliber felt the pressure, too.
Adele's Skyfall could win best original song and Brits are well represented in the best animated feature category with Paranorman, The Pirates!
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But he didn't really have the momentum with this album as with previous albums, and certainly not in comparison to Adele's '21.
Keith Caulfield, associate director of charts at Billboard magazine, said Adele's success was due to the "right combination of artistry and hit singles".
Adele's album 21 dropped out of the top 10 for the first time since its release in January 2011, slipping to number 12 in its 72nd week in the chart.
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And yet, "When you talk about Adele's year, it's hard to make the case, from a recorded music perspective, that anyone else is even in the same arena, " he continued.
Emeli Sande, who picked up three Mobos at the weekend, slipped back into second place in the singles chart with Beneath Your Beautiful, while Adele's James Bond theme tune Skyfall made the top five.
Interestingly enough, the artist consistently mentioned as the one who could have stepped on Adele's toes for album of the year is none other than Kanye West, who wasn't even nominated in that category.
To cap it all off, Adele's 2008 record, "19, " finds itself as the tenth-highest selling record so far this year with 539, 000 sold, making her the first artist to have two albums in the top 10 since Justin Bieber scored a pair halfway through 2010 with "My World 2.0" at No. 2 and "My World" at No. 9.
It's like Adele and everyone else when it comes to sales, and at the same time, she did it with an album that's incredible.
The paintings include one of his most famous works, a portrait of Mrs Altmann's aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer.
ShoreBank's director, Adele Simmons, is a close friend of Valerie Jarret.
The Jonathan Ross Show - which drew a peak audience of 4.6 million - saw the presenter interview Hollywood actress Sarah Jessica Parker, singer Adele and Formula 1's Lewis Hamilton.
Adele has been named Billboard's top artist of 2012, while her hit record 21 was named top album of the year in the music magazine's annual review.
Sunday's show saw awards for Adele, The Black Keys, Fun and Gotye, with the coveted album of the year prize going to British band Mumford and Sons.
CNN's Josh Levs, Caroline Faraj, Joe Sterling and Adele Ghssoub contributed to this report.
In 2006, after years of litigation, five paintings by Klimt once owned by Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer, two Austrian-Jewish collectors who were the painter's contemporaries, were returned to their heirs by Vienna's Belvedere museum.
Natalie Christie as the chambermaid Adele is also captivating, and her performance as a would-be actress in Prince Orlofsky's party is another highlight of the second.
Adele Schroeter has ordered sensitivity training for the entire staff of Public School 59 in Manhattan following last month's assignment, the Daily News reported Friday.
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